Lee Teng-hui, who redefined Taiwan's relations with China and guided the island on its path to democracy, has died at 97
Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate from mainland China, died on Thursday. He was 97 years old.
Mr. Lee passed away at 7:24 p.m. local time at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment since February after choking on milk, according to Taiwan’s state-owned Central News Agency.
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